RE: Unable to connect to X Server -- Updated

["Giridharan Iyengar" <giyengar at us dot ibm dot com>]

Thanks for your help. I do have a corrupt installation.
When I ran startx, I saw a bunch of ": not founds."
I am going to make sure I set up cygwin with Unix mode and
reinstall  xfree86-4.0-devel.tar.bz2

-giri


Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com> on 03/07/2001 07:58:54 PM

To:   "'Giridharan Iyengar '" <giyengar@us.ibm.com>,
      "'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com '" <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
cc:
Subject:  RE: Unable to connect to X Server -- Updated


 DOS and UNIX mode matters, because if you do DOS mode installation, your
mount points are not binary, which are needed for Cygwin/XFree86.
Unfortunately, at present, Cygwin/XFree86 is to picky that you probide a
good UNIX emulations.

I suggest using start xterm :0 not xterm -display :0.  Did you try it?

Also what you can do, you can add no hup commands at the end of
/usr/X11R6/bin/startx script, (the paths should be in UNIX style)
USe vim to edit startx script, not wordpad please.  Start a bash shell, cd
to /usr/X11R6/bin and type startx, let see if that starts your
Xserver and brings up xterminal. If you find in your bash window a lot of
errors, ": not found" then you may have corrupted you installation.
In that case all you need to do delete the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 directory,
downlaod xfree86-4.0-devel.tar.bz2 and install it. All the text files
which X uses reside in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11.  Precompiled *.exe, *.dll
and *.lib should be fine.

Suhaib

-----Original Message-----
From: Giridharan Iyengar
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Sent: 3/7/2001 6:28 PM
Subject: RE: Unable to connect to X Server -- Updated


I tried putting a delay of a minute and stopped using nohup and both did
not seem to help.  I even tried starting everything manually.

My startxwin.bat looks thus now:

set PATH=.;%PATH%;\cygwin\bin;\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin
set DISPLAY = 127.0.0.1:0

start XWin -screen 0 800x600x8 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0
sleep 60
start /B xhost +
start /B xterm -display :0
start /B twm -display :0

It does not seem to work still. I feel I must have a corrupt
installation.
My other
install on a win2k desktop works just fine.

When I setup cygwin initially, do I have to choose "DOS" mode or
"Unix" mode for the files. If I am installing binaries only, it should
not
matter, right?

-giri